<< Previous Page  .....  low rental of £2 per thousand acres per annum. The advantage of this will be manifest to settlers, for they can then put the whole of their holding (which, as already stated, is rich agricultural land) under cultivation, and still go in for stock raising and grazing by leasing adjoining land.

Emigration De Luxe.

Reprinted from “The Times” of 24th May, 1912.

A great deal has been written lately in the Press about “Emigration de luxe” for officers retiring from His Majesty’s Services, and there is no doubt that the training an officer receives, is essentially one to fit him more particularly for taking up land, and working it properly, than that of most other gentlemen, who have reached the retiring age, of other professions. The old English expression, “an officer and a gentleman,” holds as good to-day as it ever did, and therefore, in the matter of emigration, although it is not so important to him, it is of the greatest importance to his wife and family that social conditions should be thoroughly congenial. That being so, when “Emigration de luxe” is being so largely discussed, it would be very unwise to overlook the Midland Company’s scheme, for it is superlatively “de luxe”, and what the Company specially aims at is that the best possible social conditions shall prevail upon their settlements; and in making their selection, that is a point which is ever being kept well in view. Any gentleman retiring from His Majesty’s Services who desires to settle on the land, should write to The Midland Railway Company of Western Australia, Limited, 303, Winchester House, Old Broad Street, London, E.C., for particulars of their scheme of “ready-made” farms; and plans, showing their relative position to the railway , and all other essential details, will at once be supplied.